State-run Air India has extended the deadline for lenders to submit bids for a Rs 5,800-crore bridge-loan facility to refinance seven wide-body Boeing planes, to November 22. The financial bids were to scheduled to be closed on November 14.
The carrier is seeking to refinance six Boeing 787s and one B777. The selloff-bound airline had on October 30 floated bids from banks/ financial institutions to refinance its existing bridge-loan facility worth USD 819 million or worth over Rs 5,800 crore by November 14.
“Though we received two bids, we have extended the deadline for bids to November 22 for greater participation,” said a senior Air India official without naming the banks/financial institutions.
